After testing with a silver needle, the imperial physician knelt before Prince Xiang again and said, "Your Majesty, there is indeed poison in the food."
Prince Xiang fastened his robe and turned his sharp gaze towards Murong Yue on the bed, angrily saying, "Princess, do you have anything else to say?"
After hearing this, Murong Yue, who was lying on the bed, felt a chill in her heart. She bit her lips tightly and remained silent, closing her eyes, as if she had tacitly agreed to everything.
Prince Xiang's eyes were red as if they were about to bleed. He glared at Murong Yue fiercely, "Good! Very good! As expected of a princess, you dare to do it and you dare to take responsibility!"
Prince Xiang suddenly grabbed Murong Yue and dragged her off the bed. The imperial physician and servants in the room had been sent away by Prince Xiang after the imperial physician had tested the poison.
He grabbed Murong Yue's hair and pressed her into the water that the servants had prepared on the side. Water kept pouring into her nose, eyes, and ears from all directions. Murong Yue felt the suffocation of being on the verge of death. After the poisoning was exposed, she stopped struggling.
At the moment when King Xiang pushed her into the water, a vague thought flashed through Murong Yue's mind: it would be worth dying like this.
Just before she lost consciousness, Prince Xiang suddenly released her from the water. He looked at Murong Yue's miserable state with a half-smile, "Do you think I would kill you so easily?"
Murong Yue nearly coughed up her internal organs. She opened her eyes wide and looked at King Xiang with a sarcastic smile: "So what if you want to kill me now? It won't be long before the poison takes effect, and you'll have to go to the underworld to accompany me! It's just a pity that I won't be able to see you die from the poison."
Prince Xiang placed his hands close to Murong Yue's neck, exerting constant pressure. He spoke slowly and solemnly, "Then it depends on whether I torture you to death first, or you endure until I die of the poison first."
Palace
Gu Yanyue's right eyelid had been twitching for the past few days. As the saying goes, a twitching left eye brings good fortune, a twitching right eye brings disaster. Furthermore, Gu Yanyue hadn't heard from Murong Yue since their last correspondence. Even Prince Xiang didn't bring her to the palace for Yuwen Ran's birthday banquet. She had a vague feeling that something had happened to Murong Yue.
On the other side, Qin Ranran also stayed in the Duke of Qin's Mansion for several days. The next day, King Xiang sent someone to deliver a letter to her, saying that the person who really poisoned the food had been found and he was thinking about how to punish the person, so he asked Qin Ranran to stay in the Duke of Qin's Mansion for a few more days and would come to pick her up after the matter was done.
Qin Ranran stuffed a lot of silver into the servant who came to deliver the letter, and only then did she find out that Prince Xiang had been staying in Murong Yue's yard since he returned home, and had not stepped out.
Putting the whole thing together, Qin Ranran quickly realized that it was Murong Yue who poisoned Prince Xiang. Now that the matter had been exposed, no matter how much more noble Murong Yue's status was than hers, the charge of murdering a member of the royal family was no joke.
It seemed that Murong Yue's position as the principal wife would definitely be lost, and she was now the only concubine married into the Prince Xiang's mansion besides Murong Yue. In addition, her father had already formed an alliance with the Prince Xiang, and in order to further win over his father, the Prince Xiang would also promote her to be the principal wife.
Thinking of this, Qin Ranran couldn't help but want to show off in front of Qin Ruoruo. She had the badge of King Xiang on her, and the servants in the palace didn't dare to stop her. Soon she appeared in front of Qin Ruoruo with her maid.
"Sister, have you been doing well in the palace recently?"
When Qin Ruoruo saw that it was Qin Ranran who came, her face immediately darkened and she looked at Qin Ranran warily, "What are you doing in the palace?"
Qin Ranran sighed: "I came to the palace specially to visit my sister, and she treats me like this. I am really sad."
"After all, I am just a commoner, and I cannot possibly marry the concubine of the King of Xiang."
Qin Ranran was not annoyed by Qin Ruoruo's sarcasm. She still looked at Qin Ruoruo with a smile: "Sister, you are wrong. My ambition is not just to be a concubine."
The more Qin Ruoruo listened, the tighter her brows furrowed. Qin Ranran continued, "My ambition is to become the principal consort of Prince Xiang's mansion."
Qin Ruoruo said coldly, "Prince Xiang's wife is Princess Murong. Do you think he would abolish her position as wife for a concubine like you?"
Qin Ranran did not deny it. "Your Highness will naturally not abolish the princess's position as the principal wife for me, but if the princess herself is restless and does something that is not allowed by the law, then who knows what will happen."
Hearing this, Qin Ruoruo's heart sank. She hurriedly left Qin Ranran and rushed to Gu Yanyue's bedroom.
Qin Ranran looked at Qin Ruoruo's departing back, adjusted her hair, and smiled from the bottom of her heart for the first time in a long time.
Yu Wenran was teaching Gu Yanyue how to draw when he heard the news. Gu Yanyue paused holding the pen, as if she didn't react, and subconsciously repeated: "Something happened to Murong?"
Qin Ruoruo lowered her head and said, "Yes."
Gu Yanyue finally reacted. In the past few days, there was no news from the secret guards that Yuwen Ran had planted in Prince Xiang's Mansion. Now, she learned that Murong Yue's poisoning had been exposed. She had no time to think about anything else and rushed to Prince Xiang's Mansion with Yuwen Ran.
When the servants of Prince Xiang's mansion saw that the emperor had come in person, they did not dare to stop him and had to send someone to report to Prince Xiang in a hurry.
When King Xiang received the news, he had just gotten up from Murong Yue's body. Looking at the mottled marks on Murong Yue's body caused by himself and her empty eyes, his eyes turned and a new idea suddenly came to his mind.
Not only did he not let his servants stop Yuwen Ran and Gu Yanyue, but he also let his servants lead Gu Yanyue and Yuwen Ran to Murong Yue's yard.
When Gu Yanyue and Yuwen Ran pushed open the door, Prince Xiang was about to enter Murong Yue's body.
When Murong Yue heard the door creak, she turned her head and closed her eyes. After being tortured by King Xiang for the past few days, she had long lost the strength to resist.
Prince Xiang suddenly smiled and said, "Princess, open your eyes and see who is coming."
Murong Yue's eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at Gu Yanyue and Yu Wenran standing at the door in disbelief: "Sister Gu..."
Prince Xiang smiled faintly: "Yes, this prince knows that you and the queen have a deep bond, so I specially asked the queen to come in to see you."
Murong Yue's lips trembled as she fiercely pushed away the Prince of Xiang who was hugging her: "Don't touch me! Don't touch me! Don't touch me!"
Prince Xiang disagreed and said, "You were pestering me a few days ago, why do you regret it now that you've seen the Queen?"
Murong Yue's eyes were red as she suddenly pulled out a dagger hidden in the secret compartment at the head of the bed. She looked at King Xiang viciously, her throat hoarse as if soaked in blood: "I'll wait for you in the underworld!"
After saying that, she held the dagger to her chest and stabbed it without hesitation.
A pool of blood gushed out from the front of Murong Yue's shirt, and she fell straight down. Gu Yanyue's eyes turned red at this scene, and she fainted due to the excitement.
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